The Wild West Auction (July 2022)

Round copper fob. U P R R. 88M, Cheyenne. 1 1/8". Bent. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Wyoming City: Cheyenne Provenance: Gary Brac...

Grab bag lot of ephemera from Eastern and Midwestern railroads in the United States. Some examples of ephemera include stock certificates, maps, time

Group of various railroad company checks from the Lawrence Railroad Company, Peoria and Bureau Valley Railroad Company, California Street Cable Railro

10 railroad letterheads c. 1875-1917. 2x Erie Railroad, Jay Street Terminal, 2x Pittsburgh, Shawmut & Northern RR, Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Nort...

Nice Western Railroad ephemera archive including 2 locomotive prints, Southern Pacific Time Table for the Coast Division 1903, assorted letterheads, f

A 1882 Steamer Guide for European Steamship Agents. Information for Ocean Travelers. St. Louis, MO. Published by John J. Daly & Co., Stationers ...

#1-71 plus 29 more. In framed brown wood case. Possibly Atkinson, Topeka, Santa Fe Railroad? 12x15x5". From the Bracken Collection and displaye...

2 black oil wick railroad lamps, 5.5" and 9". 1 Qt. Liq'd. oil can with detached lower handle connection. Date: Country (if not USA...

1) Central of Georgia Ry. Co. 1350. 2) The Commercial Express 173. 3) The White Baggage Transfer Fort Smith 141. Claim baggage at Depot. 4)

Lot of two different railroad ticket stamps. One is a dated ticket stamp from the Union Depot in Phoenix, Arizona. This depot was a stop for the Atchi

Lockable railroad ticket cabinet made by the National Ticket Case Company of quartersawn white oak with a roll-top tambour front and single-drawer bo

Railroad ticket dispenser with the original label // Poole Brothers, Chicago //. Oak roll-top tambour opening. Tin dispenser for classic, small-sized,

Railroad ticket dispenser with decal that reads // Manufactured by Rand McNally and Co / Chicago NY and London //. Roll-top tambour back door. Tin dis

Two-piece railroad ticket dispenser and worktable made by National Ticket Case Co, Chicago, with brass tag intact. Built of straight-grained, quarters

1) 1917 number 2761. 2) 1920 guest 02-180. 3) 1922 number 173-752. 4) Oval Colorado Springs visitor 383. Condition issues - see photo. Date: Countr

Number 110625. 1924. Good Condition - see photo. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Colorado City: Provenance: Gary Bracken Collection

Small size. Probably for a motorcycle or boat. 6.5x3.25". Actually in pretty good condition for a 100 years old. See photo. Concordia is the co...

Two small license plates from Kansas City, Missouri. The first one is license plate number 5736 from 1918. The second is plate number 20297 from 1929.

Lot of three porcelain license plates from Kansas City, Missouri. These are license plate numbers 371 from 1911, 625 from 1913, and 4274 from 1913. Al

Lot of four small porcelain license plates from Missouri. Three of these plates are from Kansas City, MO. They are numbers 9108 from 1915, 6074 from 1

Black metal license plate 1961. 5.75x7", condition issues. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Montana City: Provenance: Stuart Mackenz...

Number 144! Heavy porcelain. Fairly nice condition - see photo. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Oklahoma City: Kingfisher Provenance: Gary

Lot of seven. 1-3) Two 1865 and one 1867-68 bike licenses from Ponca City, Oklahoma. 4-6) Ponca City Boat licenses: 1946, 1960, 1962. 7) 1974 Bracken,

1) Smaller (boat?) 1956. 2) 1925 long plate 260.819. 3) 1915 Bartlesville plate number 283. Condition issues - see photo. Date: Country (if not USA

Red 646 Shawnee plate. 2) White 255 Nowata plate. Condition issues - see photo, Date: Country (if not USA): State: Oklahoma City: Provenance:

Collection of approx. 60 car prints and catalogs. This collection has nice, matted photographic prints of vintage cars, illustrated pages from car mag

3 vintage auto magazines, 1979 and 1980 Corvette factory brochures, 4 vintage magazine ads, 2 Firestone bags, a few pictorial checks. How to Hop Up Yo

Lot of 10 Alaska stereoviews. Includes images of placer mining, in the Yukon River, street scenes in Ketchikan, Juneau, etc., Native Alaskans, and mor

Blueprint style map of Mohave County, AZ, Compiled by John S Mulligan, 1942. 40.5x29.5". Some edge tattering and bottom toning. Date: Countr...

Framed page from the Tombstone Epitaph newspaper in Tombstone, Arizona. This page is from Vol. 1, No. 109, printed on November 16, 1880. It has an art

"Official Map of the Territory of Arizona, From Surveys... by Eckhoff & Riecker, Civil Engineers 1880". At left "Official Map of ...

Conspiracy Theory Archive Featuring Legendary Milton William Cooper, who was killed in a controversial confrontation with Law Enforcement in 2001 afte

Mounted antique photograph of the Benicia Planning Mills in Benicia, California c. 1860-1900s. This photograph depicts a group of men and a man in a h

Billhead from the Gold Lake Stables in Blairsden, California. This billhead is from December, 1915. C.A. Lemm is named as the proprietor of the stable

Calabasas Oil Company documents, approximately a few dozen letters c. 1908-11. Includes postal cover with minor fold on back upper left and minor tea

Autographed photographs of various American entertainers including Robin Wright (actress), Arthur Fiedler (conductor), some 1920s theater performers,

About 70 movie related items. Shirley Temple Life Magazine, Lorn Greene, Tex Ritter, Treasure Island, Kirk Douglas, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Vin

Group of seven vintage one sheet movie posters for the following films: Swamp Thing (1982), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The House by the L...

EXTREMELY RARE. We've never offered this Tahoe brochure before. Only 2 institutional copies located on worldcat.org. "By Tahoe Shores.&...

Lot of 3. Two letters and one magazine advertisement. 1) 1881 letter on Central Pacific Railroad Co. letterhead sent to DA Bender, ticket agent for th

Captain Satellite, played by Bob March, was an hour long live children's tv program in Oakland from 1958-68. This signed picture is framed in a...

Three stereoviews of Oroville, California. These stereoviews include a bird's eye view of the town, a picture of the high school, and a picture ...

Ribbon from a fraternal organization called the United Ancient Order of Druids. This ribbon is from Sacramento Grove No. 112. The ribbon features the

Lot of 9 stereoviews of San Francisco including images of the Palace Hotel, a docked clipper ship, a birds' eye view of the bay, and hilltop man...

Ephemera from the San Francisco Bay Area: 1951 travel brochure from the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce; 1964 Tanforan at Golden Gate Fields official p

Mounted antique photograph of a Bay Area streetcar. There is a group of ten men standing in front of the streetcar who appear to be conductors and eng

Framed certificate certifies the American Ribbon Carbon Company is a member of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, signed by M. H. Robbins Jr. pres

About 35 family portraits including a man in a uniform, possibly a Cadet. Mounted in a 6.25x5" leather album with brass clasp. Nice group with ...

This bank note is written on Parrott & Co. Bank paper dated Dec. 27, 1855 and signed by the executors of the J. L. Folsom Estate. Signed by H. W...

This lot contains a postal cover with the likeness of H.W. Halleck size 3.25 X 5.5 in. printed by Union Stationary Depot 106 Fulton, N.Y. There are

This lot of Joseph L. Folsom ephemera includes a bank note from San Francisco bank of Page, Bacon & Co. with a beautiful vignette of the bank bu...

PALMER COOK & CO., BANK CHECK, dated Feb. 2, 1855: Check, Banking House of Palmer Cook & Co., San Francisco, Cal. Stamp cancelled by Adams &...

12 portraits, children, men and women. Various Santa Cruz studios. 2.25x2.25"-5.5X4". Date: Country (if not USA): State: California ...

These are the original copper plates for the Saugus CA 1933 USGS Topo Map. There are 3 plates, 1 for each color. They were used in an exhibit to illus

Collection of photographs and other ephemera from Stege, California. These include photographs of people and places around the town, including some in

Framed photograph by Pete Bryant made in 1949 of the view from Tiburon to Sausalito, with a four masted ship in the foreground, and the coastal stratu

Choice dealer lot of California fruit labels. This group has a great variety of labels with nice art. Some examples include labels for pears, peaches,

History of Colusa and Glenn Counties, California, with Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who have been Identified wit

History of Placer and Nevada Counties, California, with Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified wi

First edition 1939 Naval Sketches of the War in California by William Meyers, gunner. Text by Cpt. Dudley Knox with a forward by F.D. Roosevelt. 28 sk

Lot of various pieces of ephemera from California and Nevada including pictorial billheads and letterheads, checks, RPCs, modern chrome postcards. Mos

Stereoview of the town of Alma, South Park, Colorado published by the Continent Stereoscopic Company. Alma was a Colorado town that grew because of th

History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado. Illustrated. Published by O.L. Baskin & Co. in 1881. Contains a information about railroads, history o...

Antique photograph of the "Silver Queen" Aspen, Colorado. This photograph is a very nice birds' eye view of the town with snow capped ...

Framed advertisement for Henry Webber, Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers, Aspen, Colorado. Text at the bottom reads, "All Goods Marked in Plain Figures...

Nicely framed illustrations of Aspen and its surroundings. From a photograph by W.H. Jackson & Co. Published in Harper's Weekly; dated Janua...

Very nicely and professionally framed cabinet cards of Cripple Creek, Colorado. Contains 3 cabinet cards. 1. Smuggler Shaft House dated 1898 in winter

Unusual and rare pictorial ticket. Mexican Bull Fight, Cripple Creek, year unknown. Bull fight central illustration. Reverse-While in the city, visit,

Nelson A. "Buz" Rieger, a historical Western Americana collector, held an exhibition "Rush to the Rockies," curated by Nora Slif...

Frame with two advertising die cuts for businesses in Colorado. The one on the top is for Birks Cornforth, Grocer, Denver, Colorado. It features a you

This card is an advertisement for the Smith & Nixon Piano Co. sold by Darrow & Sharp of Denver, Col. The photo depicts Mm. Emma Calve. 3 1/2...

Black painted scooper. FC Ayers Merc. Co., Wholesale, Grain Flour, Hay, Bags, Cottonseed and Linseed Products, Denver, Colo. 6x12". Some paint ...

Oval metal tray with nice colors, The Levy and Lewin Mercantile Co. Headquarters for Pure and Aged Goods. Old couple, man drinking coffee, lady readin

Metal advertising sign with green background and rolled corners. Reprint of Carnation Girl, dated 1908, with red carnations. Frank Birchof Lumber Co.,

Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s Third Annual City Directory of the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Bu...

Street view of Lawrence Street in Denver, Colorado by the famous American photograph, William Henry Jackson. The backside has a few paragraphs about t

Large, nicely framed & matted bird's eye illustration of Denver, Colorado. This item is a reprint. Illustration includes a lot of detail &am...

Nicely framed illustrations from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper; dated October 25, 1873. Illustration of the Proposed Capitol of Colorado ...

1) Glass Summit Band Blue Anchor California Fruit. Plums from Placer & Nevada Counties, Colfax. 15x4". 2) Wood box end for Grand Junction f...

Birds' eye view photograph of Idaho Springs, Colorado. This is a nice view of the town with mountains in the background. Idaho Springs became an...

Lot of ten. 1-2) Letter from Andrew Rosewater, civil and sanitary engineer to the Mayor and City Council. 1890 letter about a complete plan for a syst

Stereoview of Lake City, Colorado from 1881. This is a birds' eye view of Lake City from the west. It was produced by T.E. Barnhouse, Lake City,...

Eighty letterhead and billhead collection. 1880's. Includes John G. Morgan Company. Morgan ran the Board of Trade and his large restaurant in Le...

Framed advertising calendar for Thos. Robson, Wholesale and Retail Grocer, 302 Harrison Ave., Leadville, Colorado. This calendar is from January, 1897

Reprint of Corbett Hoye & Co.'s Leadville Directory, 1880, Volume 1. This reprint was made by Samuel C. Morrison, Historical Reprints. This ...

Corbett & Ballenger's Fourth Annual Leadville City Directory. Containing a complete list of the inhabitants, institutions, incorporated comp...

Ballenger & Richards Seventeenth Annual Leadville City Directory. Containing a complete list of the inhabitants, institutions, incorporated comp...

Ballenger & Richards Twentieth Annual Leadville City Directory for 1901. Containing a complete list of the inhabitants, institutions, incorporat...

Lot of 6 photographs of Leadville, Colorado, c. 1890s-1910s. These photographs include three birds' eye views of the town from Capitol Hill, a p...

Nicely framed Leadville, CO. Illustration sketched from a photograph by W. H. Jackson & CO. A great size & measures 30' x 23." A lo...

Stickley & Shaw Insurance and Surety Bonds glass paperweight, Leadville-Colo. 2 3/8x4. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Colorado City: ...

Engraved D. Dunlop, 1865 on separate tab. Good Luck Horseshoe, Leadville Key and 1853 Half Dime. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Colorado Cit

Metal plaque, Property of, The Leadville Light & Power Co., Leadville, Colorado. Leather eyeglass case, FJ Mund, Optician, Leadville, Colo. Leat...

Includes 2 nicely framed illustrations of Manitou Springs, Colorado. It is known for its mineral springs and mountain landscapes dominated by Pike&#...

Advertising Calendar from the Cascade Grocery Co. in Ouray, Colorado. This calendar is from January, 1924. It features a portrait of a woman and her d

Two cabinet cards of the Ouray Toll Road in Colorado. These photographs depict Mt. Abram and High Point on the Ouray Toll Road. This road was built to

4.25" metal tip tray. The Dean-Creel Furniture Co., Pueblo, Colorado. Chips on front and reverse. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Colo...

Hand painted, black lettered. The Crew-Beggs Merc. Co., Salida Colo, We Sell Everything, Mail Order Solicited. Yellow background. 7x20". Some d...

Birds' eye view photograph of Silver Plume, Colorado. Produced by W.H. Jackson & Co. Photographers of Rocky Mountain Scenery, Denver, Colora...

Birds' eye view photograph of Ward, Colorado by an unknown photographer. Ward was an important mining settlement during the Colorado Gold Rush. ...